grawk

The difference you're describing is what everyone else has said all along. Balanced drive vs balanced transmission. The benefit to balanced transmission is improved noise reduction. The benefit to balanced drive is improved power, speed, etc. They're different things, and that they have the same name is where you're getting hung up. You can connect the balanced amp to the balanced preamp to the speakers any way you like, and as long as there are conductors for positive and negative, they're being driven balanced. You may get noise if you run the cables too far, or through a noisy environment. That's where balanced transmission provides a benefit. But shielding can have positive and negative side effects. Run fully shielded balanced connections to each earpiece in your headphones, and you'll stop wearing headphones due to neck strain.

When used with a balanced amp, the k1000 is balanced. When used with an unbalanced amp, the k1000 isn't balanced. I said that when used with a speaker amp with a common ground (the norm), it's not balanced. That's it. Balanced amps drive + and - actively. Balanced headphones don't share a common ground. Balanced cables have +, -, and shield. Whether something is balanced or not is entirely based on context.

Your belief coincides directly with mine. Someone else in this conversation is just looking to argue, for whatever reason.

i have a bag of rca plugs around somewhere. ill dig them up and send them to you.

5 Left 15 Right My cable should have inputs too

And why I specified common ground. Anyway, you're just arguing to argue.

I've given up trying to convince people that impedance isn't why some headphones are louder than others.

Once it's plugged into the stereo amp with shared ground, it's no longer 4 conductors.

I figured it was the "don't want to be bothered while travelling" look

Vicki looks very matronly there

Not balanced.

So the beta you built doesn't reference it's own ground?

The utz factory isn't far from me.

Yah, but I know that at least one of the MOTMOTMOTs here is hard up for cash, and the guy was looking to buy, so I figured I'd help 2 people at once I have no financial interest in either end of the deal.

Someone has emailed me looking for someone to build a regulated 12v power supply that will work in france, along with the cable to make an apogee AD500 work from it. I can provide contact information, etc.

happy birthday over here too. I hope you can find treatment for those kefs.

I might be able to give oyu a decent deal on a usb capable minidac, if it comes to that. Send me a pm.

http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/BEPPStore.woa/9054007/wa/PSLID?s=topSellers&fnode=home/shop_ipod/ipod_accessories/speakers&nplm=TK629LL/A&mco=47ED01C9&wosid=qb69Lzedzb453lTLpZK2fGUF4os That's what I was talking about at costco

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8305030

BatteryGeek.net

It's similar, but not exactly the same. The main advantage is just the cheaposity, rather than the uberqualiniciousness of it tho. If you're looking for good quality, I'm not sure whacher opshuns are.

If you've got an ipod that can do video, costco has one for like $60 that has an ipod dock.

swap tubes

I'd get a pair of home theater direct level 3s and an amp...I know of someone who's selling a pair cheap

omg